Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace. — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great… — Austen Henry Layard Copy Share Image
Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
